“Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;”
From the children of Judah, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses — Judah emerges here with particular prominence, beginning the southern alignment of tribes. Judah's placement in the census foreshadows the tribe's central role in Israel's later history, the kingdom's division, the exile, and the restoration of the southern kingdom alone.
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